Highlights

Fast, Reliable 8-Gbit/sec Performance

Non-blocking and non-oversubscribed platform with a total bandwidth of 680 Gbit/sec in 1U

Designed to increase network performance with enhanced Brocade Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, which allows up to eight ports (at 2, 4 or 8-Gbit/sec speeds) between a pair of switches to be combined to form a single, logical ISL with a speed up to 64 Gbit/sec

Excellent Value for a Variety of SAN Environments

Designed to provide a greater than 40 percent power efficiency improvement (watts/Gbit) over the previous generation of Brocade switches, further helping to reduce power consumption and the overall cooling burden in a data center

Includes a USB port that provides excellent serviceability and error logging functionality by facilitating easy firmware upgrades and downloads of system log files

Offers Top Talkers, which monitors resources and can assist in finding hot spots to increase resource utilization

Can distribute traffic across ISLs in SAN by utilizing ISL Trunking and dynamic path selection, helping to increase utilization of the SAN and reduce costs

Introducing Dell ProSupport

Professional, proactive and proven support services designed to address the technology challenges you face today.

Dell™ ProSupport™ starts with the Dell ProSupport for IT service model designed for IT professionals like you. Dell ProSupport for IT provides:

7x24 direct access to Dell expert centers

Fast-track dispatch for Dell-certified technicians

Escalation management through Dell’s Global Command Centers

Next, Dell ProSupport options align to the way you use technology — rapidly responding to your needs, helping to protect your investment, your productivity and your sensitive data, and providing excellent proactive support services that can reduce the risk and complexity of managing your infrastructure.

Keep Your Hard Drive* — Enables you to control your sensitive data by retaining your hard drive and helps you comply with current data privacy regulations to help mitigate risks associated with regulatory or civil liabilities.

Proactive Maintenance — Designed to maximize the availability and stability of your infrastructure proactively. The package includes a detailed system assessment and implementation of driver or firmware updates and upgrades for your server or storage systems.

Infrastructure Consulting ServicesSome key challenges facing IT departments today include simplifying operations, planning and building for scalability and improving utilization of their existing systems. Dell’s Infrastructure Consulting Services suite is organized into focused practice areas that signify the intersection of these common customer challenges and our domain expertise — including systems management, messaging, databases, virtualization/consolidation and storage.

Storage installation Go from factory to deployment with Dell storage installation services. Our modular suite of installation services allow you to customize the right package of services needed to rapidly implement your new system.

Storage consolidation Consolidation services provide a common platform to allocate and manage growing demands for data storage and helps reduce administrative effort by establishing a single management console. Dell's comprehensive approach to storage consolidation helps you accelerate productivity by delivering customized systems, software and services that ease management and can result in lower total cost of ownership.

SAN implementation services This service includes planning, design, configuration, project management and implementation of Dell/EMC storage arrays (DAS and SAN). This service is available for Dell/EMC storage system solutions only and is not currently available for Dell PowerVault™ or (non-Dell) EMC storage array solutions.

Backup and recovery To sustain the continued operation of your storage solution, you should engineer availability, security and reliability into every process from the outset. Dell can provide backup and recovery solutions that help ensure adequate procedures are in place to minimize or avoid data loss.

Asset Recovery and Recycling Services Proper disposal, reselling and donation of computer equipment is a time-consuming task that typically falls to the bottom of many IT to-do lists. Dell helps simplify the end-of-life processes for IT equipment in a way that can maximize value for your organization.

Add a host Dell provides for the design and implementation of a single Dell PowerEdge™ server or Dell PowerVault™ NAS (with approved operating system versions) as an additional host into an existing SAN or DAS solution.

Add a JBOD Dell provides for the basic design, installation and implementation of a single Dell enclosure as additional storage into an existing Dell PowerVault™ Storage Area Network (SAN) or Direct Attach Storage (DAS) solution.

Training

Dell Storage online training course Arm your employees with the knowledge and skills they need to be as productive as possible. Dell offers comprehensive training services, which include hardware and software training, as well as PC skills and professional development classes. Dell training can help improve system reliability, maximize productivity and reduce end-user requests and downtime.